The author of the Marquette study, assistant professor of biomedical engineering Taly Gilat Schmidt, did not test the actual machines. Instead, she based her conclusions on scanner radiation data released publicly by the TSA. She ran the numbers through simulation software that modeled how X-ray photons travel through a body.

Excuse me for my ignorance as I’m not a scientist but how can you write a paper on anything without testing that which your paper is making claims about?

Imagine if big tobacco came out with a study like this, saying cigarettes actually have vitamins in them and add 50 years to your life while increasing your sex appeal but never mentioned that the ‘scientists’ doing the research never got a single pack of smokes to test. People would be up in arms pointing out this serious flaw in the research.

“The County was required by the TSA to withhold that information because it (the existence of video from any particular CCTV camera) constituted SSI (Sensitive Security Information). Any disclosure of the existence of the videotape would have violated both TSA directives and federal regulations pertaining to the disclosure of SSI,” states the lawsuit.

So what is the truth regarding the levels of radiation that comes from these grossly violating machines:

The TSA has submitted the scanners for testing by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the U.S. Army Public Health Command. The tests concluded that the scanners posed no significant risk to passengers, but TSA critics have called for more independent studies.

We can hope that these other organizations who have been given machines to test will conduct studies in an honest and transparent way but at this point I’m going to have a very hard time trusting any data provided from these studies simply based on the track record of dishonesty coming from the TSA.

In fact, until Mythbusters gets a machine to test and give the all clear I think I’ll continue to opt out.

Before the video starts Alex Helwig was lawfully voted GOP Chairman but the existing chairman wasn’t liking that and tried to overrule the vote of the majority of delegates present.

I hate to be negative but I feel that everyone here is just as guilty as the cops doing their dirty work. Evil succeeds when good people stand by doing nothing. I’m not the best guy at math but by my count those cops were pretty outnumbered by patriots who stood by and watched an old man who was one of them get his hip displaced while doing absolutely nothing.

I get your a little fluoridated but seriously, stand up for the cause. I would not have stood by and watch this without intervening on behalf of the victim here.

CBS News is reporting that Thomas Harkins, a defrocked priest who was removed from the ministry for sexual abuse against children is now working for the TSA and they even got video from an I-Team member:

Not only does he work there but he actual has a manager title, supposedly “Transportation Security Manager, Baggage,” though when the video was taken he was seen in the main D & E terminals at Philadelphia International Airport and it is being reported he also works in passenger screening.

As Alex Jones has asked on numerous occasions, who else but sex offenders and people on crazy power trips would want to work at the TSA? I know I wouldn’t want a job like that. I’d rather be homeless and destitute then have a job where I have to subject my fellow Americans to dehumanizing violations that have become the status quo of the Transportation Security Administrations procedures.

One thing I noticed when researching Thomas Harkins is that there is almost no online press regarding this pedophile’s original offense or his defrocking. To me it looks like he actually spent some effort on search engine reputation management, a procedure where you actively suppress negative information that shows up for your name in Google. (DISCLOSURE: I own the site linked to here).

So, now that this has come to light this guy has obviously been fired by from the TSA right? Well, not so much. According to the TSA they do conduct background checks but since there was no criminal case involved the the allegations and subsequent lawsuits that were settled by the Camden Diocese are ten years old they didn’t come up during that process.

If you’d like to help make sure this guy doesn’t slide through another background check please help find more information online about his past abuse of children and post them in the comments and to any other site you have access to. We’ll add the links to the bottom of this post to help bring this guys evil past to the light of day.